Gertrude Ezorsky, 1926-2019
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Gertrude Ezorsky, 1926-2019
Former New Politics board member Gertrude Ezorsky died on April 19, 2019, at the age of 92. The New Politics board mourns her passing and offers some links to help us remember her. Andrew Wengrad and Nanette Funk, “Gertrude Ezorsky,” New Politics
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Gertrude Ezorsky
Gertrude Ezorsky, professor emerita, in the philosophy departments of Brooklyn College, and the CUNY Graduate Center, died at home peacefully on April 19 age 92.
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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in the Caribbean
In 1898 the U.S. military invaded and seized Puerto Rico and Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Unlike Cuba, Puerto Rico has not yet achieved independence and the United States continues to exert political, economic, judicial, and military control over the
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Moldova — Like Nothing Happens
It’s been more than a month since the crucial event in political life of Moldova took place – the February parliament elections. The elections define the future development of the country, which is a parliamentary republic. This small Eastern European state
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Coming to Terms with Actually-Existing Black Life
My central contention with both White and Moody lies in their reluctance to engage in meaningful class analysis of black political life.
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More on the Oakland Teachers’ Strike
Editor’s note: This article responds to analysis New Politics has already published on the Oakland teachers’ strike. In hosting different viewpoints on the strike, New Politics continues its tradition of opening its pages (and now its website) to debates about
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Capitalism and the Reactionary Power of White Identity Politics
Momentum for building a post-neoliberal U.S. has been gaining strength with each passing day. However, despite the rise of new and exciting figures, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the tide of striking teachers in even GOP dominated states, we must remain aware that whenever there has been potential for revolutionizing government and politics, there has…
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Reminiscences of the First Sanders Campaign
The words jumped from the screen like the familiar opines of old love letters. ‘Single-payer healthcare’, ‘break up the banks’, ‘fifteen dollar minimum wage’, ‘tuition free college’. I had been surreptitiously scrolling through the news on a short break from my daily
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Can the “Green New Deal” Save the Planet?
It is never comfortable to give up long-held beliefs and connections, but the impending climate crisis makes that a burning necessity. And the fact that, scientifically, it’s possible to avoid the worst of this climate disaster gives a positive incentive to do
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Profile of a Self-Exiled Nicaraguan News Presenter
When Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega announced coming changes to his country’s social security system on April 18 of last year, small-scale protests in Managua against the government’s response to a wildfire in the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve had been ongoing
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Oakland teachers’ strike: Balance sheet, lessons, and what next?
Jack Gerson, retired Oakland teacher and former executive board and bargaining team member, analyzes what occurred and why in the Oakland teachers’ strike.
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One Party in the Age of Two Lefts?
One of the great challenges to redressing the split between Democratic Party avoiding and Democratic Party engaging socialists, is how to productively deal with a beguiling strategic predilection of the party avoiders. That predilection is to assail the Democrats as
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Should DSA Endorse Bernie Sanders? A Debate
Well, it’s happened: Senator Bernie Sanders has declared his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. Seeing a historic opportunity, DSA’s National Political Committee has established an expedited endorsement process. Now DSA chapters all over the country
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Hungary’s Winter of Discontent
Widespread protests in Hungary, against the right-wing, authoritarian and nationalist government of Viktor Orbán, which began in December 2018, continue
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Just Collapse!
Sudan. The endless lines outside bakeries and gas stations suggest an almost willful naiveté about the dire economic and political situation. The Kafkaesque bureaucratic system requires an element of nepotism to vitalize it into animation. The lack of cash in
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The Decline and Fall of Neoliberal Hegemony
In his scathing, Sturm und Drang takedown of the 1851 French dictatorial coup, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoléon, Marx remarks that history repeats twice: “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Thus when Luther pit himself
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Cedric Johnson and the Other Sixties’ Nostalgia
There is something politically familiar in Cedric Johnson’s two essays in Catalyst (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2017) and New Politics (No. 66, Winter 2019). Because his political conclusions are very general, even vague, ones that build “on broad solidarity
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The Angst of the 1%
The New York Times (1/22/19) reported on a bleak letter by the billionaire investor Seth Klarman that was circulated at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The letter warns about the coming financial crisis amid increased levels of social
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DSA’s Growing Pains
Barely five years ago, if you asked someone where a new U.S. socialist movement might appear, I would wager that nearly no one would have said with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Before 2016, DSA’s profile was
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A Preview of “What is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times”
What is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times is going to be released later this year by Zero
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Beyond The Nation State: A Critical Look At Venezuela’s Current Crisis
Venezuela has made headlines in the last few weeks, as Venezuelan opposition leader and National Assembly head Juan Guaidó has declared himself interim President, throwing the country into turmoil. Current President, Nicolás Maduro has called the effort a coup. Meanwhile,
